It’s wild how many US judges seem to just be classic dumb guy types

Yet despite the fact that there was voluminous evidence that this was utterly false—evidence reviewed by prosecutors earlier in the hearing—Carney persisted in privileging the defendant’s attempts to depict their intentions as neutral and nonviolent.

https://davidneiwert.substack.com/p/the-toxic-evil-antifa-narrative-has

I bet this guy isn’t nearly so credulous & lenient to a lot of other types of defendants. Interesting how gently he treats violent Nazis.

RE: https://infosec.place/objects/1dd15c4c-e2f6-4ddf-979d-c8da61a93811

As Wheeler notes, a proper comparison “would make it clear that Federal authorities treated Trump’s supporters far too lightly, not the opposite.” This is similar to what we saw throughout the five years of Proud Boys protests in Portland with local authorities as well a federal ones.